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Does anyone recall the "Shoe Bomber?" You know, the guy on the domestic flight who displayed a fuse going into a chunk of C4 in his sneaker that he tried to light in full view of his fellow passengers who stomped him?

Never mind that C4 requires a blasting cap in order to detonate (Vietnam vets recount their experiences burning C4 to use as a fuel to heat their c-rations!)

And never mind that if the "Shoe Bomber" was really going to blow up the plane with C4 in the correct manner, he would have done so inside a locked toilet on the plane, not in front of everyone.

The result is that all the good little sheep boarding planes take their shoes off, going along with the charade that something is being done about "terrorism."

If the "Shoe Bomber" posed such a real threat, then why doesn't Israel require its airline passengers to remove their shoes?

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